Most of Earth’s meteorites can be linked to just a few collisions within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, two new studies report, including a particularly cataclysmic impact event around ...

A new scientific study has revealed that the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter is slowly disappearing. Researchers say the belt, which contains millions of rocky bodies, has been steadily ...

Between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter lies a ring-shaped region called the asteroid belt, home to the vast majority of our solar system’s space rocks. The asteroid belt is as old as the solar system ...

What would happen if you obtained space-bending abilities and decided to test them out by placing Earth between the two asteroid belts in our Solar System? The short answer is you might be asking for ...

A new "main-belt comet" — a comet-like object masquerading as an asteroid in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — has been identified, bringing the tally of these beguiling objects up to 14.

Lying between Mars and Jupiter is a massive ring of rock debris—the asteroid belt. Now thin, it’s fading away gradually. In a new study, planetary scientist Julio A. Fernández of Uruguay’s Universidad ...

"We are a bit surprised about its origin in the central main asteroid belt, which is a location in the asteroid belt that we did not think many Earth-crossing asteroids could originate from." When you ...

Geologic map of the asteroid belt. Circles identify the asteroid families from which our meteorites originate and letters mark the corresponding meteorite type. The horizontal axis ranges from short ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

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Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...